2022
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JANUARY 2022
1/8/SAT
@
4PM
EL MONSTRO and I
are invited to participate in
MUSIC MAKING
CLICK on LINK for additional information
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5331318...
Overlooking the Los Angeles skyline
with
Dwight Trible,
Arlynn Page,
Paul Livingstone,
Neelamjit Dillon,
This is a family-friendly,
private gathering with limited tickets.
BYOP- Bring Your Own Picnic, outdoor event.
Presented by Soul Force Project,
a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that promotes social justice through global music and the arts.
This is a fundraiser for Soul Force community programming
such as Odo Olo Ilu Ire drumming and Soul Force Singers for 2022.
come on up if you come on down
AQUI Y AHORA
VIVA LA VIDA
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1/15/SA
recording session in San Diego, CA
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FEBRUARY
2/19/SAT
FLOWER SONGS MUSIC
XOCHI CUICATL MUSIC
FLOR Y CANTO
flowersongsmusic.weebly.com/about.html
is invited to do a presentation for by LAPL
LINKS to be announced
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MARCH
3/29/TU
@
6:00 PM
LA MADE
EDENDALE LIBRARY BRANCH
presents
Mexico Atemporal
with Christopher Garcia y Pablo Lenero Archer,
Join us Tuesday March 29th at 6:00 p.m. PST on the Edendale Zoom -- LA Made presents Mexico Atemporal,
a performance by Christopher Garcia y Pablo Lenero Archer! Master percussionist and educator Garcia plays indigenous breath and percussion instruments of Mexico and Central America, taking us on a musical journey heightened by Archer's treated piano explorations. These acclaimed musicians have performed their own compositions around the world, as well as a repertoire that spans indigenous music of many cultures as well as jazz and classical works, from canonical to experimental.
Email eden@lapl.org for the Zoom link to attend.
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APRIL
invited to participate
4/24/SU
BOBBY BRADFORD MO'TET
@
UNION STATION LOS ANGELES
800 N. Alameda Street,
Los Angeles, CA 90012
more info to come as it gets closer
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MAY
invited to collaborate musically
5/1/SUN
El Circo Anahuac:
An Aztec Opera
schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/el-circo-anahuac-an-aztec-opera/
El Circo Anahuac
is an Aztec opera
presented with a modern circus troupe
that tells the classic Nahuatl tale of the birth of the twin volcanoes outside Mexico City:
Popocatepetl,
the “Smoky Mountain,”
and
Ixtlacihuatl,
the “Sleeping Woman.”
The composer David Reyes and the librettist Maria Elena Yepes wrote,
produced and created this one-hour and fifteen-minute opera.
It is an original, independent artistic endeavor that tells a well-known
Mexican and Mexican American cultural tale,
a few hundred years old.
Written primarily in English and Spanish,
with several Nahuatl names and references,
the opera production includes stage props, film, dancers,
five actors with voices, stagehands, seven musicians, and a narrator dressed as a circus ringmaster.
Voices include
soprano,
mezzo-soprano,
tenor,
bass,
and baritone.
Instruments include
flute,
clarinet,
trumpet,
trombone,
tuba,
percussion instruments
and indigenous breath, and percussion instruments
Of Mesoamerica and Mexico
Executive Producers: Steven Loza MariaElena Yepes
Director:
Steven Loza
Producer:
David Reyes
Composer:
David Reyes
Librettist:
Maria Elena Yepes
Choreographer:
Janelle Gonzalez
Presented by Brown Fist Productions, LLC 2022
This event is made possible thanks to support from the UCLA Center for Latino Arts (CLA),
the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies,
and a grant from the
UCLA Chancellor's Arts Initiative.
https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/el-circo-anahuac-an-aztec-opera/
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5/06/FRI
FLOWER SONGS MUSIC
invited to San Diego for
educational outreach program
flowersongsmusic.weebly.com/
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5/07/SAT
invited to perform
with
Tasha Smith Godinez - pedal harp
Reggy Wood - piano
cg El Monstro percussion
THE JAZZ LOUNGE
SAN DIEGO CA
6818 El Cajon Blvd. San Diego, CA 92115
thejazzlounge.live/
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5/13/TU
invited to coach and work with UCLA percussion ensemble
when they perform
SINFONIA INDIA
ROYCE HALL
AT
UCLA
LA,CA USA
schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/cornel-west-arturo-ofarrill-and-mariachi-los-camperos/
Cornel West,
Arturo O'Farrill,
and
Mariachi Los Camperos
UCLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
headline in a concert celebrating the thirty-year history of musical interchange between UCLA and numerous musical organizations across Mexico.
The concert features a special presentation of Arturo O'Farrill's recent Grammy Award-winning album Four Questions, featuring the narration of internationally acclaimed philosopher and social activist Cornel West, and instrumentation by the UCLA Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, directed by O'Farrill, and UCLA Philharmonia, directed by Neal Stulberg. The concert also features performances by legendary Mariachi Los Camperos, directed by Jesús Guzmán, as well as a performance of Miguel Bernal Jiménez's Concertino para Órgano y Orquesta featuring UCLA organist Christoph Bull.
Sponsored by the
UCLA Center for Latino Arts,
the UCLA Arts Initiative,
Friends of Jazz at UCLA,
the UCLA César Chávez Department of Chicano and Central American Studies,
and The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
Arturo O'Farrill - Four Questions, featuring Cornel WestGRAMMY® Award-winning pianist/composer Arturo O’Farrill's album Four Questions features special guest Dr. Cornel West on the title composition “Four Questions.”
Premiered live-in-concert at The Apollo Theater in 2016, “Four Questions” took the shape of Dr. Cornel West’s speech at Town Hall (Seattle, WA: October 9, 2014) based on his book, Black Prophetic Fire, expounding upon Four questions posed by the great African American civil rights activist and author W. E. B. Du Bois in his 1903 book, The Souls of Black Folk.
“‘Four Questions’
is about bringing attention through Dr. West’s brilliance and vision, coupled with the subversive power of the Afro Latin [Jazz Orchestra], to the influence of revolutionary thought that demands we take stock of where we are as a country and demand better,” says Arturo O’Farrill, pianist/composer and Artistic Director of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance. “We must pay tribute to the jazz greats like Coltrane, Holiday, Mingus, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, and carry on their legacy of bringing attention to the real issues of modern society through jazz music.”
O’Farrill notes, “Watching Dr. West speak is one of the sublime musical moments of my life. His oratory has the weight of a John Coltrane solo. His rhythmic delivery has the tumbao of Mongo Santamaría. The humor with which he injects his very serious messages floats like Charlie Parker in flight and, oh, most sacred of all, when he gets deliberate, each word has the authenticity and Afrocentricity of Thelonious Monk’s right hand.”
Dr. West's performance at Royce Hall is part of a residency at UCLA, as a University of California Regents' Lecturer. His participation is also sponsored by the UCLA Center for Latino Arts; the UCLA Division of Social Sciences, Darnell Hunt—Dean; Friends of Jazz at UCLA, Gloria Turner—President; Professor O'Farrill's UCLA research funding; the Kenny Burrell Chair in Jazz Studies held by Professor Terence Blanchard; the UCLA Herb Alpert Endowment Fund for Guest Lecturers; the Gary Nash Endowed Chair in American History held by Professor Robin G. Kelley, the Ralph Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA, and the UCLA Department of African American Studies.
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PRIVATE EVENTS
5/17TU
5/18/WE
RESONANCIA
SOLO MESOAMERICAN INSTRUMENT
INFORMANCE
LECTURES
VIA ZOOM
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5/20/FRI
LA MADE
VAN NUYS LIBRARY
12 NOON
presents
FLOWER SONGS MUSIC
XOCHI CUICATL MUSIC
FLOR Y CANTO
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/la-made-resonancia-flower-songs-music
flowersongsmusic.weebly.com/about.html
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5/24/TU
back in the studio
with
PABLO CALOGERO
AQUI Y AHORA Y MAS ALLA
aquiyahoraymas.weebly.com/
TBA when it is released
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5/31/TU
invited to
MAKE MUSIC
with
PABLO CALOGERO
aquiyahoraymas.weebly.com/
@
ZEBULON
dice.fm/event/wbkox-arto-lindsay-pablo-calogero-31st-may-zebulon-los-angeles-tickets?lng=pt
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JUNE
FLOWER SONGS MUSIC
flowersongsmusic.weebly.com/
Has been invited to participate in
“Three Communities, One World”
June 3, 2022
Three Communities, One World!
Fri, June 3, 2022
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
Westerbeck Recital Hall
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
1570 East Colorado Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91106
TIX are $15.00
presented by
CLAZZICAL NOTES
https://www.clazzicalnotes.org/
THE SILK TRIO
(traditional music of China)
Yihan Chen - Pipa (Chinese lute)
Haowei Cheng - guzheng (Chinese zither)
Qin Xiang - erhu (Chinese spike fiddle)
FLOWER SONGS MUSIC
Christopher Garcia
Yolanda Delgado Garcia
Alegria Garcia
indigenous breath, string and percussion instruments of Mesoamerica, marimba and voice
MIJAN OWENS
(powerhouse vocal diva)
Mijan Owens - voice
Charles Love - piano forte
LUIS VILLEGAS
(flameno guitarist extraordinaire)
will also be percussion of India as a guest with 2 of the artists
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6/20 - 6/22
PRIVATE SOLO EVENT
MUSICAL CLINICIAN @ BIG SUR
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6/25/
FLOWER SONGS MUSIC
PRIVATE EVENT
NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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JULY
7/5 THRU 7/7
PRIVATE EVENT
MUSICAL CLINICIAN @ BIG SUR
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7/11 THRU 7/13
PRIVATE EVENT
MUSICAL CLINICIAN @ BIG SUR
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7/29/
TASHA SMITH GODINEZ
CD RELEASE CONCERT
with
myself
and
Nico Huseo - viola
Lightbox Theater
2590 Truxtun Rd #205
San Diego, CA 92106
Phone: (619) 225-1803
SEPTEMBER
September 10,
7:00 pm
TASHA SMITH GODINEZ
with
myself
and
Nico Huseo - viola
September 10, 7:00 pm - Trio + Camille
Queen Bee’s,
3925 Ohio St,
San Diego, CA
September 10,
7:00 pm
TASHA SMITH GODINEZ
with
myself
and
Nico Huseo - viola
September 10, 7:00 pm - Trio + Camille
Queen Bee’s,
3925 Ohio St,
San Diego, CA
